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There was a town I used to go to with my mom as a kid, it had a big brown wooden building that had big wooden barrels full of old style candy, plastic buckets all on the back wall with over a hundred flavors of these long twisted candy sticks. And next to it was a tiny little pizza place with like 2 chairs and a pac man table machine. The road to get there was at this one part of a street where there was a big long turn that had a Y split of halfway through it, no one ever took the Y split off unless they were going to the town, because the other way led to the main multi lane road that was faster to get everywhere from. It was a small little town center area, had an old windmill building that you could go in, was an Old New England style town. The road that passed through it lead over to the next town in a way that made sense specially. Then we stopped going, and I sorta forgot about it. So I grew up and got my license and drove past, and thought I should drive to that town, so next time I was cruising around, I went to the bend in the road and took the cutoff, I drove through a winding backroad that had no other roads connecting to it, and came out back on the other side of town, in a way that made no sense specially. After that, people I knew started using the “shortcut” all the time, talking about how useful it was, and when I brought up the town or how the road didn’t make sense, they’d get this demonic look on their faces, and acted like they knew it was wrong, but either couldn’t notice it or comprehend it. Later on the place the road led to changed again, it actually had 2 roads now that split off, and one led to the opposite side of the main multi lane road, again, in a way that is impossible, there was no bridge or tunnel, and the other side led back to another place on the other side of town. People kept using these roads by habit, which used to be so dirty and covered in dirt because they were so unused.
